(1848-? ) US medical doctor, inventor and author, whose Culture, a Modern Method (1891) applies techniques that might a century later be described as Genetic Engineering with Lamarckian implications, with the Invention of a process by which unhealthy cellular material is recast and rejuvenated; further experiments, where animals are – perhaps surgically – modified into servitors able to obey orders, are suggested. [JC]

Elliott Emerson Furney

born 1848

died [alive in 1910]

works

Culture, a Modern Method (St Louis, Missouri: I H Brown and Company, 1891) [book printed in St Louis: publisher's address given as New York and St Louis: hb/]

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